As Twitchy reported earlier, an internecine Twitter feud broke out between New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and New York Times editorial writer Brent Staples after Kristof suggested the #BlackLivesMatter movement might have been better served by focusing on Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police in Cleveland, rather than Michael Brown.

Staples responded that it wouldn’t have mattered, because a “healthy majority” of whites support the actions of police in cases where blacks are killed.

Kristof did his best to clarify, but Twitter wasn’t having it.

@jeff_deeney Michael Brown case is more ambiguous and uncertain; Tamir Rice case more clearcut and likely to persuade people of a problem.